Table of Contents

1. Progress and Prospects of Coherent X-Ray Research Using High Power Lasers in Japan Atomic Energy Agency.- 2. Advances in High Average Power, 100 Hz Repetition Rate Table-top Soft X-Ray Lasers.- 3. Possibility of Recombination Gain Increase in CV Ions at 4.0nm via Coherence.- 4. Overview of development of laser driven secondary sources at PALS and ELI.- 5. Spectral properties of collisional XUV lasers for the amplification of femtosecond pulses.- 6. Transient collisionally excited x-ray Lasers pumped with one long and two short pulses.- 7. Seeded operation of a Ne-like Titanium soft x-ray laser.- 8. Output beam polarization of x-ray lasers with transient inversion.- 9. Improved sub-10nm Ni-like lasing by varying the slope of the traveling-wave velocity.- 10. Temporal response of seeded XUV lasers under different amplification regimes- inversion density threshold.- 11. Self-photopumped x-ray lasers from elements in the Ne-like and Ni-like ionization state.- 12. Pump-Probe Experiment for Temporal Profile Measurement of Plasma X-ray laser.- 13. Capillary discharge X-ray Lasers: the Quest for sub-10nm Lasers.

About the Author

Dr. Jorge Rocca
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
USA

Dr. Carmen Menoni
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
USA

Dr. Mario Marconi
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
USA